An air-locked lab at UNC is leading research on cures for the coronavirus
Posted Mar 13, 2020
For scientists working in laboratories across the world, their names usually won’t become well known outside of the subsection of people reading academic journals. But the outbreak of COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has spread from China around the globe — has pushed researchers at UNC, specifically Dr. Ralph Baric, into the spotlight.
(Durham Herald-Sun)
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